All this talk of UFOs is hilarious. Next thing you know, they'll be saying there's life on Earth. HA HA! What a hoot!
Posted on 03/13/2005 2:30:18 PM PST by wagglebee
There was video of it.
Its photo made the front page of the local paper.
And police did not have a good explanation for the mysterious, unidentified flying object which spooked residents for five hours in New South Wales, Australia, last weekend.
"A black triangular object that made a number of movements and then speared off out of sight behind the trees," is how authorities described the item, according to the Dubbo Daily Liberal.
"I've never seen anything like it," Suzanne Fuller told the paper, thinking the object to be 40 to 50 miles away. "It was hovering there for five hours, and it was completely silent."
"It looked like a bird, but much larger, the size of a car, with a flat top and a deeper shape at the bottom," she continued. "Once the sun set, there was a light like from a lighthouse flashing on and off, every couple of seconds."
"The police were here, and they said they had never seen anything like it before. Every now and then, it would move to the left again, and then back to the same spot again."
Authorities viewed her videotape, and made an official report to Air Services Australia, a federal airways monitoring bureau.
But it turns out the event was much ado about nothing, as the UFO turned out to be a kite flown by local hobbyists.
"My neighbour came over laughing with the newspaper," said Paul Cremin, a local resident who flies kites with his 13-year-old son, Aidan.
"We couldn't stop laughing when we read the story," he said. "I called the police because I didn't want anyone to worry, and the policewoman couldn't stop laughing either."
Cremin says he and his son were flying a kite for some five hours in the part of the sky mentioned by Fuller.
As far as the lights going on and off, he said, "We use a [flashlight] to try and spot the kite in the sky once it gets dark."
"Reading that they saw it move a bit to the left, and then back again, I knew it was the kite. It does exactly that," he said, shaking his head.
It's them danged Thetans again, makin' trouble in the neighborhood. Somebody get L. Ron on the horn...oh, wait, he's deceased, ain't he?
Until it was identified as a kite, it WAS a UFO.
This is exactly why Orson Welles "War of The Worlds" resulted in half the country going into serious panic mode!!
All this talk of UFOs is hilarious. Next thing you know, they'll be saying there's life on Earth. HA HA! What a hoot!
Thought I saw an eagle hovering in my neighborhhood many years ago. Watched it for a long time....Long enough for me to think: Eagles to fly around in one spot and concluded that it was a kite. How I laughed at myself. At least I wasn't stupid enough to think it was a UFO
My daddy thought he saw a UFO one night and phoned the police -- turned out what he had seen was a night landing of the Space Shuttle, which was way cooler than a UFO!
This reminds me of an episode of Fury, the old TV show about wild stallion. If it isn't fury, then it might be Lassie, but I'm pretty sure it's Fury.
One of the boys gets into the whole space man craze and gets a kite shaped like a UFO and walks around in a fish bowl-like space man outfit.
Pete sees the kite and thinks the Martians have landed. I think he shoots the kite and maybe takes a pot shot at the boy dressed as a Martian.
So once again, art is imitating life.
Hmmm.
I'd put silver sparkle tails on that bugger.
Hmmmm...sounds like a kite to me....oh, wait,...it was.
FMCDH(BITS)
The proud owner of that puppy can make it light up, flicker, strobe, and alternate mini light strips with a remote control.
Great name for a newspaper.
FMCDH(BITS)
Yeah I was thinking the same thing!
1. There are definitely UFOs. They are objects that are flying, but they are unidentified.
2. If they are U.S. military, that is the good news. The bad news is if they are sophisticated beoyond anything anyone expects us to have, there will be intense spying efforts conducted against us by foreign nations.
2. If they are NOT U.S. Military, but belong to some other nation - that is bad news. And OUR nation must conduct intense spying operations against the nation which possesses that technology!
3. If these craft do not belong to any nation on earth, ulp! Then to whom - or what - do they belong?
4. If they belong to a benign/benevolent race/lifeform, that's good news. They are just observing and have no real interest in us other than scientific curiosity, or perhaps they are silently giving advice to various leaders in the hopes we don't nuke ourselves to hell. In any event, they are not interested in the settling here, they've probably had better digs elsewhere in the cosmos.
5. If they are evil, they might be causing a lot of problems. If they had wanted, they could already have taken over the earth, or destroyed all life forms. That they haven't indicates that their intentions could be some sort of unbeneficial manipulation of world events or world politics. But to what end? What purpose? Only the shadow government knows. So sleep well, and resist them when they come to abduct you and probe you.
What brand of tin foil are you using these days...?
Watch for the reported sightings of a mountain man in the NJ Pine Barrens. This could be real.
Yeah, that is just what they want you to believe.
File this one away for use during the next Democrat National Convention!
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